Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next afternoon. A government employee who had been motorcycling to Nios from Wum first discovered the disaster. When he came upon a dead antelope, he thought he had had a stroke of luck, and happily strapped the animal to his bike. But when he got closer to Nios, the impact of what had happened struck him as he saw more and more bodies of people and animals. Fighting back dizziness, he returned to Wum. Late that day, his ghastly report finally reached Yaounde...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
Handlin discussed the Revolution's impact on American ideas about politics and government, concluding that it was "an incident in the way of life of a people," but not a clear turning point in American intellectual history--only in its political structure...
Gould pointed to the dinosaurs, saying that there was no biological reason for the dinosaur mass extinction, which he said was probably caused by some type of extraterrestrial impact...
...discussion ranging from the impact of public polling on voter attitudes to the New Deal change of Americans' cultural view toward government, the three explored the possibility that the so-called "Reagan Revolution might be as lasting as Roosevelt...